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In renzm /M% UNITED rams rarest ATENT JAMES M. IDE, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE IDE, BRUCE 8t 00., OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED RE-ENFORCE AND STAY FOR THE BACKS OF SHIRTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,870, dated March 17, 1885.

Application filed April 7, 1834 To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs M. Inn, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement of a Combined Re-Enforce and Stay for the Backs and Back Openings of Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of shirts that are made with a back re-ent'orce at each side of the slit, and which re-enforce parts are also employed to produce a stay for the back-slit, the object of my in vention being to giveagood finish to the parts, and to more securely connect them by forming one of the reenforce parts or pieces wider and longer than the other, so that where it is wid er it will subtend the edge of the slit to form an overlap thereat, and where longer a tabstay at the bottom of the slit,with the vertical edge of the narrower width re-enforce piece having its edge coincident with the edge of the slit, and the two re-enforce parts thus out combined with a separate strip that is attached to form the, inner facing of the overlapping part of the re-enforce, and the outer facing of that other part of the re-enforce which, with the edge of the slit beneath it, forms the underlap.

Accompanying this specification and form ing a part of it there are three plates of drawings containing four figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figurelshows a part of a shirt-back with my invention applied thereto, with the button-fly or overlap illustrated as turnedoutwardly at the top of the garment-slit. Fig. 2 shows a cross-section taken on the line was of Fig. 1, with the thickness of the parts somewhat exaggerated to better illustrate them. Fig. 3 shows a shirt-back with the two-part re-enforce in part attached to the latter, with the lower end of that part of the re enforce cut to produce the overlap turned out to illustrate its attachment to a facing-strip used in connection with a twopart re-enforce to produce the inner facing of the overlap and the outer facing of the underlap, the said strip being shown as turned out at the top of the slit to illustrate the attach- (No man.

ment. Fig. 4 illustrates the two-part re-enforce and the facing-strip as sewed to that edge of the re-enforce part out to produce the overlap, with the end of said strip shown as turned up.

The several parts of my invention and those of ashirt with which it connects are desig nated by letter reference and their attachment is described as follows:

' The letters A and Aindicate the two parts of the re-enforce. The part designated at A is cut wider and a little longer that the other, so that on the side of its greatest length it can overlap the edge of the garment, and extend below the bottom of the slit when attached thereto, as will be subsequently described.

The letters B designate the shirt-back, and F the facingstrip; O, the completed overlap, and O the underlap, the letter T indicating the lower portion of that part of the re-enforce A cut wider than the other part to form the facing for the overlap, said part T extending below the slit M,to be secured to the garment thereat to form a stay.

The parts thus cut and described are attached as follows: The strip F is first sewed at a on one of its edges to the vertical edge of the reenforce part A, as indicated at Fig. 4, and then said strip F is on its opposite edge sewed to the adjacent edge of the slit, as indi= cated at a, and in continuity sewed to the coincidently laid edges of the re-enforce part A and the remaining unattached edge of the slit M. WVhen this has been done, that part of the strip forming the underlap is folded over and down,and sewed to the re-enforce part A and shirt at d, and the overlapping part A is sewed to the strip, as indicated at d, with the tab end T, border-sewed to the shirtback below the slit, and cross-sewed at the bottom of the slit, as designated at a. The reenforce parts A and A are each sewed to the shirtback, as designated at e 6 and where adjoining the sleeve they are at each side sewed in 5 to the seam, uniting the sleeve wit-h the shirt, as indicated at D D that part of the sleeve where thus attached being designated at N.

At the top of the shirt the re-enforce parts maybe attached at or below the yoke seam, ico and where joining the sleeveseam the re-enforce parts A and A may be cut deeper, so

- side seam of the shirt, if desired.

as to be included in the sleeve-seam as far around on the lower part of the latter as the A shirt thus made has a re-enforce attached where its use is very advantageous, and as made it can be applied to produce an overlap for the back-opening ofthe shirt,both of which features can be attached to the shirt by the same operation.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a combined re-enforce and stay for the back-slit of shirts, the combination of the reenforce part A, attached to the shirt-body at e, and cut to overlap one edge of and the bottom of the slit, and attached to the shirt below the latter, the re-enforee part A, attached to the shirt-body at efihavingits vertical edge parallelwith the adjacent side of theslitwhere underlapping said part A, and the strip F, attached to the inner facing of the overlapping part of the re-enforee, and to the outer I face of the underlap of the said part A and the shirt beneath the latter, as shown and de- 25 scribed.

2. In a shirt-back, the combination of the slit M, the overlap 0, produced on and by the lateral subtension of the vertical edge of the re-enforce part A, the underlap 0 pro- 0 duced by the vertical edge of the re-enforce part A and the shirt-body at the edge of the slit beneath said last-named re-enforce part. and the strip F, attached to the inner face of said overlap and the outer face of the under- 35 lap and shirt beneath it thereat, as shown and described.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 31st day of March, 1884, in the presence of the two witnesses whose names were by them hereto writ- 0 ten.

JAMES M. IDE.

Witnesses:

Gno. BAXLEY,

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

